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"BCAA Supplementation for Enhancing Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy" with Professor Kevin Tipton
Category: Health
Duration: 00:52:41
Publish Date: 2021-04-08 10:00:00
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Episode 158 of the Institute of Performance Nutrition's "We Do Science" podcast! In this episode, I (Laurent Bannock) discuss "BCAA Supplementation for Enhancing Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy" with Professor Kevin Tipton (The Institute of Performance Nutrition, UK).

Discussion Topics Include:

  • Overview of Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA) as a popular supplement in sport and exercise nutrition
  • BCAA s integral importance for skeletal muscle protein metabolism
  • Physiological roles and characteristics of BCAAs, EAAs, and Leucine in enhancing muscular strength and hypertrophy
  • The data and evidence on BCAAs: the early rodent data vs human studies
  • The many important factors that may influence findings on this topic
  • From science to practice: summaries and conclusions

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